The McCarran-Ferguson Act: Implications of Repealing the Insurers' Antitrust Exemption : Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, June 20, 2006U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006 - 156 páginas |
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Página 66 - Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint...
Página 115 - The business of insurance, and every person engaged therein, shall be subject to the laws of the several States which relate to the regulation or taxation of such business.
Página 8 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Página 80 - ... value independent of the parties to them. They are not commodities to be shipped or forwarded from one state to another and then put up for sale. They are like other personal contracts between parties which are completed by their signature and the transfer of the consideration. Such contracts are not interstate transactions though the parties may be domiciled in different states.
Página 69 - Congress with reference to the regulation of the business of insurance. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby declares that the continued regulation and taxation by the several States of the business of insurance is in the public interest, and that silence on the part of the Congress shall not be construed to impose any barrier to the regulation or taxation of such business by the several States.
Página 68 - No Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or supersede any law enacted by any State for the purpose of regulating the business of Insurance...
Página 81 - Act, as amended, shall be applicable to the business of insurance to the extent that such business is not regulated by State law.
Página 69 - Nothing contained in this Act shall render the said Sherman Act inapplicable to any agreement to boycott, coerce, or intimidate, or act of boycott, coercion, or intimidation.
Página 139 - Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I would be pleased to answer any questions you may have.
Página 65 - Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc., 365 US 127 (1961); United Mine Workers v. Pennington, 381 US 657 (1965).